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...parties say that in the event of a snap election they are prepared for a showdown at the polls, where their candidates garnered one-third of the vote in the 1984 national assembly elections. Their major challenge will be to unite behind one candidate. Aquino's widow Corazon could pose the most serious threat to Marcos, but she has declined to run. Another possible candidate is Salvador Laurel, a longtime presidential aspirant and the official candidate of the United National Democratic Organization, the country's biggest opposition party...
...Gilbert is that we can put ourselves in his shoes, can sit at his wife's bedside day after day, watching the Florida sun gild the furniture and listening to the Atlantic lick the beach like a cat. Emily dozes. He looks at her in a rare peaceful pose and is grateful for the quiet...
...hurt the economy by discouraging investment. Some of the loudest complaints came from manufacturing industries, which spend more than most businesses on new plant and equipment. Alexander Trowbridge, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, contended that the bill could "result in reductions of manufacturing capacity and employment" and pose "extremely high risks for the economy...
...fishing villages transformed into a megalopolis within a few short years. Shenzhen is just that place, a 126-sq.-mi. serpentine swath opposite Hong Kong that still has the raw look of a city halfway between blueprint and reality. Apartment high-rises border unpaved roads, while open trenches pose a hazard to the unwary. In the shadow of the International Trade Center, at 54 stories China's tallest building, are mounds of dirt coughed up by the excavation. Construction cranes scratch the sky, the air is full of dust, and the noise is worthy of a Grateful Dead concert...
...airline has suffered no hijackings since 1968. Security at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport ranges from piece-by-piece luggage inspection to exhaustive questioning of passengers, who are advised to check in two hours ahead of departure time. On most flights, air marshals with concealed Uzi submachine guns pose as passengers...